American EBM act Youth Code is continuing their two year-long tour with latest album “Commitment to Complications” with yet a new headliner, in yet a new music scene. After supporting acts as metal band Baroness, post metal act Deafheaven and, for Release readers, well known industrial act Skinny Puppy, Youth Code is back in Europe. This time with the major synthwave act Carpenter Brut, a tour that, however, kicked off with two shows supporting Front 242.
Release writer Jimi Nilsson and photographer Jule Roge met up with Youth Code before their show in Hamburg to get insight into their unusual background in the hardcore/punk scene, how it is to support such completely distinct acts in disparate music scenes and the sound of the next album. This is our second Youth Code interview. [more...]
Chris Connelly joined Ministry on stage
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During Ministry’s latest show in Chicago, Chris Connelly joined Al Jourgensen on stage. He sang on ”So What” from the 1989 album ”The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste” and the two icons hugged. [more...]
Remember Empirion? The British XL Recordings act did a great body-techno mix of The Prodigy’s ”Firestarter” back in ’96 and released some solid material. Now Oz Morsley (Kloq) and Jamie Smart will soon be back with a new album, “Resume”, on Dependent Records in Germany.
Ladytron has released the music video for their ”comeback” single ”The Animals”. Watch the short film, filmed in Sao Paulo, below. [more...]
Erk Aicrag’s (Hocico) electro/industrial/punk/metal project Rabia Sorda has enlisted Nils Lesser (Cypecore) for a tighter production on the new album. [more...]
The new Agent Side Grinder line-up will present its first release one year after three of the members left the band. [more...]
Finnish composer and synthesizer wizard Kebu (Sebastian Teir) was commissioned by his birth town Kristiinankaupunki to write a piece to commemorate Finland’s 100 years of independence. [more...]
We have just received Swedish atmospheric electronic duo Red Mecca’s fourth album, scheduled for a May 18 release. [more...]
Johan Baeckström, a respected name among synthpop connoisseurs for his solo and Daily Planet albums, will release a new solo single soon. [more...]
